Kevan, You "should" have Googled for "King Harold Day", matey! <http://www.kingharoldday.co.uk/f_basic/index.php> Starts at ten am. Bring good eye protectors and do not look up! Harold 2 would be excluded as he would be nearly 1,000 years old. Cheers, Phil Orpington, Kent (Not an Essex lad!) >Hi Lawrence, > Tell us all more, where it is, maps, etc. I might have a wander >along. >Big Kid, about two and a half thousand weeks old. >Thanks >Kevan Phil Warn ô¿ô Genealogists do it backwards Family Historians take all steps "The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722" <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philwarn/FamHist1/index.htm>

-----Original Message----- From: Phil Warn [mailto:philwarn@ntlworld.com] Kevan, You "should" have Googled for "King Harold Day", matey! <http://www.kingharoldday.co.uk/f_basic/index.php> Starts at ten am. Bring good eye protectors and do not look up! Harold 2 would be excluded as he would be nearly 1,000 years old. Hee hee! There'll be a beer tent with lots of Archers on sale (not). So you know, this do is held every year on the closest Saturday to the date of Harold's death - 14th October. It's been going about 4 years now and has proved to be massively popular. If anyone fancies a peek at the 14 bells in the church steeple, it will be open to the public (over 8's only I believe, due to insurance). This only happens a couple of times a year. You'll even be able to walk round the roof on top and see the view far and wide, from Epping Forest across to the Lea Valley and down into London. Bring a good camera! There's a few car parks around the site, but they will inevitably be full up, so I suggest you enter the town from the west (there's a loop road running round the north of the centre, heading for Hertfordshire; take this and double back into town at a big roundabout). You will find yourself driving towards the church tower, then the road bends to the right just in front of it. After a few feet, it bends to the left again, but just before it does there's a turning on the right (There's a restaurant called MUHINOOR on the corner, which was obviously a pub until recently - the Coach and Horses). Take it, and turn immediately right again down a small lane with a sign for a car park, with the restaurant on your left. This car park is the biggest in town and is free on Saturdays. It will only be a short walk back to the church, and to the do which will take place in its grounds. There's a page on the site Phil has so kindly found that lists all the exhibitors etc. that have been booked for the day, and this should give you a taster of what to expect: http://www.kingharoldday.co.uk/f_news/news_detail.php?news_id=33 For a more basic timetable: http://www.kingharoldday.co.uk/f_attractions/index.php Apologies for being offtopic; in an attempt to put just a tiny bit of genealogy into this posting, I'll tell you that I was considering dressing up as a Viking for the day, and if anyone dared to tell me I was in the wrong century, I'd tell them I was Harold's grandad - and William's too! Maybe next year... Lawrence No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1717 - Release Date: 09/10/2008 16:56